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WS Ref #: 412 , Witness: Joseph Murray, Officer IRA, Antrim, 1921
... office was at Barry's Hotel in Gardiner's Row. Here I remained attached, to the Director ... , Roger McCorley was now Brigade 0.C.; Tommy Flynn was Battalion 0.C.. When I paid my first post ...
... ., was shot dead in Royal Avenue, Belfast, opposite the General Post Office at 9 o'clock in the morning ...
... on the other office a were equally successful. Another Income- Tax Office on Donegall. Square ...
... was a post-Truce member of the I.R.A. given any position of trust and all important information was ...
... 27. The officers of the I.R.A. were now beginning to find some difficulty in maintaining control of the rank and file. This only applied to the post Truce element of our membership. During this period (July 1922) the business community of Belfast saw that things were becoming too serious ...
... 7. Early in the month of October, 1920, we. carried out a raid on the G.P.O. (Sorting Office) in Belfast. Our object was to procure the mails destined for Dublin Castle, but this raid proved unsuccessful because of the absence of the mails. During the same month a raid was organised ...
WS Ref #: 419 , Witness: Martin Conlon, Courier to Galway, 1916
... Collins handed Martin a letter that had been intercepted in transit through the post office ...
... there. He was at this time a Corporation employee either in the Sanitary Office or in the Rates Office. I ...
... 4. I should have mentioned an important event that happened a good while before the Rising in 1915. Larry de Lacy of Enniscorthy had to go on the run when the office of the Enniscorthy Echo was raided - that was the time Sean Hegarty was arrested. He - de Lacy - spent the whole time, apart from ...
WS Ref #: 421 , Witness: William Oman, Member Irish Citizen Army, 1916
... was to occupy the "Mail" office, and Elmes was to occupy Henry & James' • We understood from our officer ... Post beside the City Hall, and Sinnott House. The main body, under the command of Captain Sean ...
... 11. Davy's, was one of them. Sfter a few minutes' conversation, Lieut. Riordan returned to his own post at Jacob's. I found things very different in the College of Surgeons to what they were in Jacob's. Commandant Mallin had a very, very strict code of discipline prevailing in the building ...
... . They returned to the Custom House front door, where they were taken in, and I was ordered back to my post ...
... front him to the various officers. He also showed me, in the office, a list of the names of the men ...
... the sections breaking off to take up positions at Henry & James' and the "Evening Mail" office ...
WS Ref #: 424 , Witness: Geraldine Dillon, Sister of Joseph M Plunkett, executed 1916
... of poultry were sent by them from the Galway Post Office at Christmas. They fought amongst themselves ...
... -7- in his lodgings at the New Docks and shot through the stomach eleven times. He crawled on his hands and knees from the the lamp-post on the quay where he was shot to the door of the house. Father ... Express" office was completely wrecked. GD. This was supposed to be the only "Sinn Féin" newspaper ...
... . Requiem Mass was celebrated for Quirke and Mulvoy, the Bishop presiding. The Last Post was sounded ... about all night in Galway, tiring rifles; Louis O'Dea's office was bombed, Pat Moylette's shop looted ...
... -24- The Terror continues;- The floggings, burnings and lootings continued week after week. A student in. U.C.G., who was an ex-soldier holding what was called a Kitchener scholarship, told the police that some engineering students were larking about the drawing-office during the "two minutes ...
WS Ref #: 428 , Witness: Thomas Devine, Member IV, Dublin, 1916
... was tightening in around the Post Office, and ours was only one of various outposts attacked ...
WS Ref #: 450 , Witness: Bridget O'Mullane, Officer Cumann na mBan, Dublin, 1917 - 1921
... mBan had various ways of collecting information; some of the girls, being employed in local post office ...
WS Ref #: 452 , Witness: Michael McDunphy, Director of Bureau of Military History, 1913 - 1921
... was then serving, I think, in the Post Office, and was held in Aldboro’ House, Portland Row, Dublin ...
... of the Department of Agriculture was called up to the office of a senior official for the purpose of taking ...
... was then serving in that office, may be able to give information on that point. 23. I understand ...
WS Ref #: 458 , Witness: Sean Corr, Commandant IRA, Tyrone, 1921
... performed its mission; Charlie was tried on a Friday, under his alias, post haste and released ... . on a motor bicycle with a dispatch that General Mulcahy's office in Dawson St. was raided early on Saturday ...
WS Ref #: 463 , Witness: Sister of Mercy, Member of Nursing Staff, Mater Hospital, 1916 - 1917
... 3. Another wounded man that was brought in on the Wednesday was Patrick McGrea. He was suffering from pellet wounds in the hand, back-side and leg which he told me he got in the Post office fighting. His wounds being slight, he was sent out of the G.P.O. with a despatch. He then got shelter ...
WS Ref #: 481 , Witness: Simon Donnelly, Captain IV and IRA, Dublin, 1916 - 1921; Chief of Republican Police
... for transmission to England to the Post Office at Ballsbridge. Our orders were to capture the mails at all ...
... to practise in same. The Home Affairs Office in which I was installed was working at full pressure all ... of negotiations, arrangements were made to evacuate the office and move elsewhere in other words go underground ... to a secret dump. This was to guard against an office being raided and records captured and continuing ...
... 2. War effort. We did, however, do light fatigue work, solely in connection with our own quarters. After the visit of the War Office official, things changed for the better and we had prolonged ... at Frongoch, North Wales. In my opinion the British War Office have always found Scotch troops willing ...
... leave Ireland unless he held a permit to do so from Dali Eireann. This was a sub-office of the Home Affair's Office. All shipping agents throughout the country were approached by the Republican Police ...
... of information was under control. Our men in the Post Oftice kept the mails under observation, noted ...
... of the corridors and addressed by a British Officer from the War Office. Amongst other things he ...
... with the Generals in the War Office". One of the Auxiliaries smiled, I was feeling much more at ease now. I ...
... in a terrible state. I had been very lucky so far. Next morning I was brought back to the Intelligence Office ...
... warnings of removal from office of the men responsible, if there were not big improvements ...